Albert white



(Nd Model.)

A. WHITE.

COAT AND HAT HOOK.

No. 496.375. Patented A r.- 25, 1893.

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ALBERT WHITE, OF LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO FREDERICK TAYLOR, OF SAME PLACE.

COAT AND HAT HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 496,375, dated April 25, 1893.

Application filed July 11, 1889. Serial No. 317,231. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT WHITE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lowell, in the. county of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Hat and Coat Hooks, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to hat and coat hooks and consists in a hat and coat hook formed of a single piece of wire bent as hereinafter described to form a hat hook, a coat hook and an attaching screw or point.

In the'acconipanying drawings, Figure l is an isometric perspective view of a hat and coat hook constructed according to my improvement; Fig. 2, a front elevation of the same.'

The hat and coat hook A consists of a single wire W, looped laterally twice, at w w, in opposite directions, one portion 20 of said wire extending, from end to end of the finished hook and constituting one member of the hat hook and one member of the coat-hook. Said portion 10 is ofiset, at 20 laterally, in order that the lower free end of the member 10 of the coat hook may lie in the same plane with the part of the wire 10 above said offset. The portion 10 or member of the coat-hook ends under said offset 10 The member 10 of the hat hook nearest the end of the wire is bent across the other member of said coathook, at w, and then backwardly to form an attaching-point 20 which may be driven into a wall or other support, but which is preferably screw-threaded, as shown at w in Fig. 1, the

shank of said attaching-point being imme-' diately over the other free end of the wire. The loops to w are spread laterally, to facilitate the placing of garment-loops upon them and to give the same a broad lateral bearing thereon, each member of the same loop being laterally in the same surface, or, in other words, a line connecting parts of the members of the same loop or hook at equal distances from the free end of said loop beinga horizontal line.

The hat and coat hook above described presents a symmetrical appearance and is very easy of construction, and with the exception the opposite side of the combined device, and

said continuous member having an olfset, one.

end-portion of the wire being bent across said ofiset and backwardly and formed into a screw-threaded fastening, and the other end of said wire terminating at the shank-of the screw-threaded portion, substantially as described.

2. A hook consisting of a single piece of wire, having a hat hook provided with two members lying in the same surface laterally and having one member bent across the other, and its free end bent backwardly and formed into a screw-threaded fastening and the coat hook also having its two members laterally in the same surface and continuous of the wire, the other free end of the wire being bent upward and terminating under the shank of the screw-threaded portion, substantially as described.

3. A hook consisting of a single piece of wire, having a hat hook provided with two members lying in the same surface laterally and having one member offset and the other member bent across said offset, and its free end bent backwardly and formed into a screwthreaded fastening and the coat hook also having its two members laterallyin the same surface and continuous of the wire, the other free end of the wire being bent upward and terminating under the shank of the screwthreaded portion, substantially as described.

4. A hook consisting of a single piece of wire, having a hat hook provided with two members lying in the same surface laterally and having one member ofiset and the other member bent across said offset, and its free end bent backwardly and formed into ascrewthreaded fastening and the coat hook also having its two members laterally in the same snr- In Witness whereof I have signed this speciface and continuous of the Wire, the other free fication, in the presence of two attesting Wit- 10 end of the wire being bent upward and terminesses, this 31st day of May, A. D. 1889.

nating under the shank of the screw-threaded r r portion, the members of each loop, except at ALBER F VIII said olfset, and attaching-point being sym- Witnesses:

metrical to a central vertical plane, substan- ALBERT M. MOORE,

tially as described. M. B. GILEs. 

